19th century
actual: 13.9 x 8.5 cm (5 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)
Rodolphe Bresdin. estate stamp (not in Lugt) Paul Bresdin. artist's son D. G. Santee Landweer, Amsterdam, 1930. D. Loenen, Amsterdam. Adolph Schwarz, Amsterdam-Amstelveen. Robert M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara, CA. Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, purchased from R.M. Light & Co., 1991, sold to HUAM, 1993. Long term loan to HUAM from June 1991 to 1993
Watercolor on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchWatercolor, gouache, pastel, and lead-white, with scratching and light varnish, on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to folded laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBlack chalk
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on buff wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on thin white wove paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchGraphite, with erasure, on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite and watercolor on white wove paper
19th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream wove card, the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter
19th centuryFrenchBlack ink on tracing paper, darkened and mounted to laid paper
19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and graphite on cream modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown wash and black chalk on cream wove paper
19th centuryFrench